Wheel-fender.



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APPLIU-ATION FILED JULY 29, 1903 A .NO MODEL.

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OLAUD H. E. SCHENOK, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

WHEEL-FENDER.

SPECIFICATION forming' part of Letters Patent No. '741,171 dated October13, 1.903.

Application led July 29, 1903. Serial No. 167,439- (No modem tions whichwill act by the weight of the body to inclose the same on the fender.

Further improvements of construction will be apparent in the detaileddescription following.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure lis a side elevation of the fender.Figs. 2 and 3 are details in elevation, showing the means for releasingthe front fender-section to Vpermit it to lift, so thata body cannotroll oi the main fender. Figs. 4 and 5 are details in elevation of ajointed rod controlling the position of the main fender. Fig. 6 is adetail of the guide-bracket through which the rear arm of the mainfender works, and Fig. 7 is a detail in section of the front bar of thefender.

Referring specifically to the drawings, the supporting-frame for thefender is indicated at 6. This is semicircular in shape, and there is asimilar frame at each side of the fender. Each frame has arearwardly-extending arm 7, which is pivoted at 8 to a bracket 9,fastened to the bottom of the car-frame 10, and the rear end of the armWorks in a slot in a guide-bracket 11, so that the frames and the fendercarried thereby will drop when desired. Normally the fender-frames areheld in raised position by a rod 12, having a knuckle-joint at 13. Thisrod is fastened at its upper end to the car-frame 10 and at its lowerend to the arm 7. The joint may be flexed by means of a rope 14, whichextends up through the car-floor and into the vestibuie of the carinposition to be pulled by the motorma'n. When the rod is pulled, thejoint is iieXed and the fender will drop to the track. The main fenderis indicated at 15, substantially semicircular in shape. At the upperand lower ends of the frame 3 are pivoted the covering Vor inclosingfenders 1t and 17. These are normally in the position shown in fulllines in Fig. 1 and will respectively drop and lift to take the positionshown in dotted lines in said figure when the fender receives a body.This movement is controlled and effected by means now to be described.

The fender 16 is pivoted at 16a to the upper end of the frame 6, and thepivot-bar carries a sprocket-Wheel geared by chain 18 to one of doublesprockets 19, supported on a bracket secured to the main frame, and theother sprocket 19 is geared by a chain 2O to a sprocket 2l, alsosupported by a bracket on the frame. The chain 2O carries blocks 22,which are adapted to stop againsta bell-crank latch 23, pivoted at 24 tothe frame. The other arm of the bell-crank is attached to a rod 25,fixed to the main fender 15. Aspring 26 is secured at one end tothe arm7 and is connected by a cord 27 to the chain 20, and the spring tends topull the chain so as to rotate the sprockets mentioned, and the turn ot'the sprocket 16a will drop the fender 16 to the position shown in dottedlines in Fig. 6. When a body is struck and falls into the fender-15, itsweight turns the bell-crank and releases the latch, and the springimmediately pulls the chain, so that the inclosing fender drops andmeets the lower fender 17, which is lifted, as hereinafter described.

The lower fender 17 is pivoted at 17av to the lower end of the mainframe 6, and the pivotbar carries a sprocket-wheel, which is geared by achain 28 to one of double sprockets at 29, the other of which isconnected by a chain 30 to a sprocket 81. Said sprockets are carried bysuitable brackets iXed to the main frame. At 82 a spring isindicated,connected at one end to the main frame and at the other end by a cord 33to the chain 30. This spring tends to pull the chain and rotate thesprockets, causing the lift of the front fender 17 to the position shownin dotted lines in Fig. 1. This movement is prevented by a latchcontrolled by the motorman. This latch consists of detents 34, pivotedto the front end ofv a bar 35, which slides in a block 36, secured tothe frame 6. The rear end of the bar is joined to a toggle 37, themovement of which is controlled by a rope 38, which extendsI over suit-IOO ` sition to be pulled by the motorman.

able guide-pulleys to the car-vestibule in po- When the toggle isflexed, as it is normally, the detents 34 project into the links of thechain 30 and prevent any movement thereof. After a body shall have beenstruck the motorman pulls the chain 38, which straightens the toggle andwithdraws the detents from the chain. This permits the spring 32 to actand lift the fore fender 17 by the means described.

The front bar of the fore fender 17 is of peculiar and improvedconstruction. It consists of a rubber tube 39, receiving therein endpieces 40, which are connected by a spring 41 inside the tube. These endpieces are supl ported at the lower or front ends of the frames 6. Whena body is struck, the rubber and elastic bar will yield, so that noinjury will be produced by the impact.

Atthe front end of the frame 6 rollers 42 are journaled. When theknuckle-bars 12 are iiexed and the frames turn on the pivot 8, vtherollers drop to and ride along the track. As said before, the rod 14 ispulled and the knuckle-bars iexed at the rst sign of danger.

The fenders are suitably constructed of slats or other material. Y

It will be seen that when a body is received on the fender 15 thefenders 16 and 17 close and meet to hold the body on the fender.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination with a main curved fender, of inolosing fendershinged to the upper and lower ends thereof and means to close saidfenders, to retain a body on the main fender, substantially asdescribed.

2. The combination with a main fender, of an inclosing fender hinged tothe top thereof, and means actuated by the weight of a body on the mainfender to drop the inclosing fender, substantially as described.

, 3. The combination with a fender havinga rearwardly-extending armpivoted to the carbody, of a jointed rod between the arm and thecar-body, sustaining when straight the fender in raised position, and arope connected to the rod, to iieX the joint and permit the fender todrop.

4. ThecombinationWithacurvedmainfender, of inclosing fenders hinged tothe upper and lower ends thereof, springs having connections to theinclosing fenders and acting to close thesame, detents engaging saidconnections to prevent the action of the springs, and means to vreleasesaid detents.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing-witnesses.

CLAUD H. E. SCHENCK.

VVitnessesz JOHN A. BOMMHARDT, LOTTIE NEWBURN.

